- Creating center marks inside of a SolidWorks drawing view
are great ways to signify whole centers,
which can be really important.
And also where circular bosses
are protruding out of an item.
For this particular example,
I inserted this drawing view and SolidWorks automatically
dropped a bunch of center marks on it.
I'm going to go ahead and select one and hit control all
to select all of them and hit delete.
And I'm going to go ahead and add on
the center marks that I want to include,
because I don't think that I need all of those
and I don't want to confuse anybody
by cluttering up my drawing.
So I'm going to go up here to the command manager,
the annotation tab.
And here we find the center mark feature,
again like so many other features,
if you just hover over, it does give you a definition
of how it works.
This one is really simple.
You simply click on the center mark option, find a circle
click on it and you're given your center mark.
If you choose another circle like the outside
of the counter bore of this pocket, you get the center
mark to extend out appropriately.
For the center of this massive radius
that's on the exterior,
I can click right here and I get a center mark
that is appropriate to that.
Same again and I can just quickly click around
and note all the locations of my holes
with a center mark.
Really easy, when you're done
you just hit the green check mark and you've accepted them.
And now you can use these center marks
for defining the various positions using dimensions.
And you can also define them using the axis
for various angles as well, which is really handy.